Lucy McGough wrote:I think that's pretty much what happened. It was either that or the joke about Rebecca Adlington.

Which joke I didn't get. I admit, I thought the one about the Queen was funny, but I'm an American. And, for a reason I can't explain, I have a very broad but sometimes mean sense of humor. Which bothers me, but I can't seem to change it.

MajorHoy wrote:but is that what really happened or what people assume happened?

Everything I've read (I wanted to know why he wasn't on the newer ones) says that that is what happened. He said the BBC fired him for making jokes some people didn't like, and seemed to have backed up the observations some made.

Mbast1 wrote:Everything I've read (I wanted to know why he wasn't on the newer ones) says that that is what happened. He said the BBC fired him for making jokes some people didn't like, and seemed to have backed up the observations some made.

Mbast1 wrote:Everything I've read (I wanted to know why he wasn't on the newer ones) says that that is what happened. He said the BBC fired him for making jokes some people didn't like, and seemed to have backed up the observations some made.

Lucy McGough wrote:Yeah, there was one of those Daily Mail-led faux-outrage campaigns.

So, is the Daily Mail like Fox here, where old people are conned into reacting to anything some of them don't like by complaining about the end of the world, and trying to stop anything from making them realize it's not the 1950s?

Lucy McGough wrote:Yeah, there was one of those Daily Mail-led faux-outrage campaigns.

So, is the Daily Mail like Fox here, where old people are conned into reacting to anything some of them don't like by complaining about the end of the world, and trying to stop anything from making them realize it's not the 1950s?

I think you've got the basic idea. Essentially: immigrants, foreigners, people on benefits and anyone in a political party are all out to destroy Britain, and what we really need to do is round them all up and hang them from lamp posts.

(a) Aquaman don't need no snecking horn. He can summon sea creatures using the power of his mind alone. This makes him objectively better than Namor, since he doesn't need accessories.(b) What kind of marine deity/superhero has winged feet? Winged sandals are an attribute of Mercury, for crying out loud!(c) Nineties Aquaman (as written by Grant Morrison) is my favo(u)rite Aquaman.

Lucy McGough wrote:(a) Aquaman don't need no snecking horn. He can summon sea creatures using the power of his mind alone. This makes him objectively better than Namor, since he doesn't need accessories.(b) What kind of marine deity/superhero has winged feet? Winged sandals are an attribute of Mercury, for crying out loud!(c) Nineties Aquaman (as written by Grant Morrison) is my favo(u)rite Aquaman.

Yes. There's nothing quite as impressive as a bloke who spends his entire life swimming underwater, who nonetheless inexplicaby chooses to wear pointless but extremely heavy metal body armour on just one arm and side. Because that's not going to hamper his movement or drag him down in any way.

Philip K Ditko wrote:The pre-Crisis Jason Todd, as written by Doug Moench, was the only Robin I liked.

I liked the original Jason (though not as much as the Earth Two Dick Grayson). Sadly, his post-COIE (or rather, post-Batman #400) incarnation was an obnoxious waste of space.

But his pre-CoIE version was such a Dick-clone, right down to the circus background and parents killed by a bad guy (in this case, it was Croc when he was actually a criminal mastermind and not some dimwit hiding in the sewers all the time).